Hardly 313, but some techno content all the same and I figured this might well appeal to some UKers on the list.
***************** AUTO Line up announced for major new festival Sat Dec 14 Magna, Sheffield Pulp, Röyksopp, Lemon Jelly, LFO, Four Tet, The Bees, Baxter Dury, James Yorkston, The Kills, Zongamin, Jamie Lidell, Chris Coco, Piano Magic, Trevor Jackson, Capitol K & Leafcutter John, Optimo, Annie & Timo, Bjorn Torske, SchneiderTM, I-Monster, Erland Oye, Asleep At The Wheel, Tony Morley, John Peel, Quixote visuals and Warp Films & DJs Pulp's Steve Mackey has emerged as the brains behind one of the most innovative and ambitious live projects to be staged in Britain this year. Featuring an unrivalled selection of leftfield electronic and rock talent, together in one of our greatest palaces of former industry, Auto will exist in the same spirit as festivals like Barcelona's Sonar, which has in recent years have earned their own awesome reputations for creative booking and artistic invention. Conceptualised and realised by Mackey, Auto is also born out of frustration with the UK's "stale and dead" festival scene, which the bassist equates to the football transfer system, with big name players monopolising all the money and power, leaving a raw deal for the paying punters. Auto will, he says, offer something less hierarchical, and, in the process, reintroduce an element of unpredictability and surprise to proceedings. It is a testament to how well these sentiments travel that almost all participants at Auto have been prepared to offer their services for little more than expenses, with Röyksopp, for instance, relocating their own Sheffield show to appear at Auto with former Telle Records label mates Bjorn Torske and Annie & Timo in a welcome Norwegian moment. Auto will be split into four arenas of entertainment for the night, running from 7pm - 2am, with things breaking down a little bit like this: Auto One Bjorn Torske, Röyksopp, Annie & Timo, Pulp, John Peel, The Bees, Desperate Sound System, Baxter Dury, James Yorkston Auto Two (Warp and Eat Your Own Ears Stage) James Lidell, Mark Bell (LFO) DJ, Four Tet, Capitol K & Leafcutter John, Warp DJs, Warp films, Quixote visuals Auto Three Lemon Jelly, SchneiderTM, I-Monster DJ, The Kills, Optimo DJ, Zongamin, Trevor Jackson DJ, Erland Oye (Kings of Convenience) Auto Four Chris Coco (Radio One Blue Room) DJ, Tony Morley (Leaf), Piano Magic DJ, Asleep At The Wheel DJs Auto's 3,500 tickets will go on sale next week for £30 each (www.ticketmaster.com). There are also plans to have cinema tie-in with the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield, with programmes being planned by Warp and Jarvis Cocker among others. This is not the first time Pulp have been involved at a hands-on level with forward-thinking festival planning. It may, in fact, be remembered that what turned into the V Festival was originally conceived by Pulp in 1996 as a means of getting all their favourite bands onto one bill in a nice setting. And then Richard Branson stepped in. The Magna centre is one of the country's most imaginatively converted post-industrial spaces. As the Templeborough Steelworks the nine storey, 350-metre long structure was the largest in Europe, housing 10,000 workers at its peak. In the year 2000 a £46m renovation was completed and in 2001 the Magna Science & Adventure Park beat rivals such as the Eden Project for the prestigious RIBA Stirling Architecture Prize for the Best New Building in the UK. The entertainment at Auto will be presented cheek-by-jowl with such attractions as the Wild Fire, the Big Melt, the Tornado and Danger-Blasting! Contacts: www.warprecords.com www.eatyourownears.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
